Great Week

5.7 miles this week. I pushed a little harder on Saturday and I felt that in my calves. It is so hot and humid it makes it really hard to push and next week school starts back and I will have to run in the afternoon and it will be even hotter. My son has been running with me for several weeks and that has motivated me a bunch. Next week I am going to try tweaking my diet as I continue to increase my mileage. I am trying to eat raw as much as possible. Usually in the morning and at lunch is all raw and I mix cooked and raw for supper. Next week my five fingers will hit 100 miles on them and they are going strong.

Hot and Humid!

Still hit the park 4 times this week for a total of 4.55 miles this week. I hit 1.25 as my longest run and I plan on a 1.5 mile run next week. Temps are supposed to be higher and humidity will be high as well.

Feels Great to Be Running Again!

I finally ran a mile this week and it felt great. I am dying to up my mileage faster but I have to remind myself to go slow. My 10 year old son ran with me 2 times this week and he did very well. He wants to run a 5k in August when we have a local race so I hope we are both ready. I will not be trying to break a PR this time. I want to finish with my son. Last year he ran his first in just under 40 minutes so if we can keep that pace this year it should be all good.

When I hit my mile I thought I had finished a marathon. I was sweating and felt really good. I only ran 3.25 miles this week, but I hope to run 4.5 next week. I am also closing in on 100 miles in my five fingers. I was at 84 miles as of Saturday. I would love to get 300 miles out of them, we will see what happens. Here's to another good week of running.

Treadmill vs Outside

I knew it was a little harder to run outside but Saturday I ran outside for the first time since I have been able to run again. I had yet to be sore running on a treadmill. Today my calves are really sore and my ankle is stiff. I've have got to be careful and make sure I am running outside more than on a treadmill. I'm afraid if I continue to run on a treadmill, I will then go out and run 3 miles and not be able to walk for a week. With the humidity down this coming week, I will get outside all week and see what happens.

I really want to get out and run longer. I just received my new copy of Runner's World and I get fired up by the time I finish reading it. I have a 5k race coming up in August, hopefully I will be ready for that when it comes around. I want to run a half marathon so as soon as I am able to run around 12 miles a week for 3 weeks I plan on finding a half marathon to run.

I found a great website that lists half marathons in the US. halfmarathons.net is great, it breaks the races down by states and months. I plan on finding a race that is 12 weeks out once I hit my weekly mileage of 12. I found several websites with training guides for the races and I finally found one that should work for me. It is designed to finish the race and not break a time. I think you must finish one first and then work on times. It doesn't have as many speed runs, mainly just mileage.

And just so you know, I ran 2.3 miles last week. Here's to increasing that.